Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin

6 best books like Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin (Alexandra Richie): Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, August 1914, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam, Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day, Be With

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

Author	Jason Stearns
ISBN	1586489291

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply...

Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

Author	Nina Willner
ISBN	0062410334

In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...

August 1914

Author	Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN	0374519994

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

Author	Martin Windrow
ISBN	0306814439

In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were quickly isolated by them and forced to retreat into their out-gunned and desolate jungle base-a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The Vietnamese besieged the French base for five long and desperate...

Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day

Author	Anthony Cave Brown
ISBN	1585746924

The title of this book is taken from a quote by Churchill...."In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies". And this book is about those lies that were used to mislead, betray, and sacrifice during the time leading up to D-Day. The London Controlling Section...

Be With

Author	Forrest Gander
ISBN	0811226050

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical...